Manifolding sales book



Oct 8, 192-9. BOTTLE 1,730,354

MANIFOLDING SALES BOOK Filed May 23 1922 5 v INV TOR ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 8,19 29 UNITED STATES PA EN OFFICE EDWARD KIRBY BOTTLE, OF ELMIRA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN SALES BOOK COMPANY, LIMITED, 01 TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, A. CORPORATION OF ONTARIO, oANAnA Application filed May 23,

This invention relates to manifolding devices and with respect to its morespecific features to manifolding books, pads and the like and elements thereof.

One of the objects of the invention is the provision of a simple and practical manifolding unit adapted to be utilized in various types of manifolding books and the like.

Another object of the invention is the provision of an efficient and convenient manifolding book or pad adapted for making five or more records at one writing.

'Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of elements and arrangements of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in theollowing claim. ,7

In the accompanying drawings forming part of the specification and wherein similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views;

Figure .1 is an edge view of a folded record sheet with a supplemental pasted leaf;

Fig. 2 is 'a perspective view of a' manifolding book, or pad, including a plurality of the record sheets of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the book of Fig 2, associated with a supplemental pad of tissue leaves.

Referring now more specifically to the drawings and particularly to Fig. 1 thereof, there is illustrated a folded record sheet composed of the integrally connected record leaves 1, 2, and 3, the numeral 1 indicating the original leaf on which the original in-.. scriptlon is made, the numeral 2 indicating the duplicate and 3 the triplicate towhich the inscription. is to be transferred. The leaves 1", 2, and 3 -may be made from a single paper strip, or sheet, aridmay be folded along the two parallel lines 5 and 6 into superposed relation, that is, with its parts superposed one upon another the end record leaf 2 lying between the leaves 1 and 3, the underlying leaf 3 having an extension or stub 7 for binding purposes and having a weak- MANIr oLnme SALES BOOK 1922. Serial No. 562,959.

ened line 8 (see Fig. 1) for facilitating the tearing of the leaf 3 from the stub 7.

The*numeral 9 indicates a supplemental record sheet pasted to the first mentioned recoi d sheet. As illustrated the supplemental record sheet -is pasted to the under face of the topmost leaf 1, the paste line being generally parallel to the foldinglines as in dicated at 10 and beingadjacent the fold line 6. Theolongitudinal dimension of the supplemental record sheet is such thatit may lie in superposed relation tothe three leaves 1, 2, and 3 and extend across the fold line 5 between the topmost leaf and the leaf 3, whichlatter is next adjacent the topmost leaf when enumerating from the freeend of the record sheet in thedirection of the bound end of the leaf 3. The supplemental recor'd sheet 9 is folded along the line 11 parallel to the folds in the other sheet and is thus divided in Fig. 1 is shown assembled with other similar manifolding units in a pad or book, the stub ends of the several sets of units being bound together by the staples '14 which may be extended through a suitable backing 15 .of pasteboard, manila paper or thelike. The numeral 16; indicates a transfer leaf bound with the pad by the staples 14 and working from the stub end of the pad into and'out of position between the supplemental leaf 13 and the leaf 3, the transfer leaf 16 being coated on, both faces with carbon in order to transfer impression direct'to the. leaf '3 and in reverse to'the underlying face of the leaf 13. The numeral 1.7 indicates a second transfer by the staples 14 and also working from the boundend of the record sheets into superposed relation with the record'leaves. The transfer leaf 17 extends across the fold line 5 between the topmostreeord leaf 1 and the bound record leaf 3 and is folded at 18 parallel tothe folds5 and 11. It will be under stood that the .record. sheets, whether the" opaque record sheet of leaves 1, 2, and 3 or the sheet of transparent record leaves 12 and 13, are perforated or weakened along the fold lines for the purpose of eflicient and convenient tearing apart thereof.

In Fig. 3 the book illustrated in Fig. 2 is shown assembled with a second pad of transparent leaves, as tissue leaves 20, one of the leaves 20 being shown in manifolding posi tion relative to the other leaves. This secnd pad is stapled to a support leaf 21 of pasteboard or metal which is hinged to the backing 15, as by means of a flexible connection 22, on an axis parallel to the fold lnes of the record leaves, the support leaf 21 eing extended as at 23 beyond the bound end of the pad 1 for positioning the second pad of transparent leaves 20. If desired, the pad of leaves 20, instead of working from the bound end of the pad 1, might be attached to the support 21 at the side of the pad 1 (not shown). In Figs. 2 and 3 the book composed of the units illustrated in Fig. l is shown with the 1 effect, as described in.,connection with Fig.

2, the transparent leaf 20 of the second pad will receive a reverse impression of'the record. By the construction illustratedin Fig. 2 five copies are made at one Writing, whereas six are made by the'constructionillustrated in Fig. 3.

sets including a record sheet folded on two lines parallel to the bound end of the pad to provide three superposed record leaves, the

two additional record leaves, said transfer material including two relatively superposed transfer leaves supported ina position to work from the bound end of the first mentioned record sheets into superposed relation with said record leaves, one of said transfer leaves extending across the fold line between the topmost recordleaf and the bound record leaf, said supplemental record sheet being transparent, a backing for said pad, 2. support leaf hinged to said backing and a second pad held on said backing, the leaves of said second pad being transparent and adapted to be superposed relative to the leaves of the other pad. 4

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

EDWARD KIRBY BOTTLE.

Thus by the above described construction are accomplished, among others, the objects I hereinbefore referred to. 7

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall beinterpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the\ language used in the following claim is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the inven tion which, as a matter'of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Havin described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to "secure by Letters Patent is: f 4

In a manifolding pad, in combination, a

plurality of relatively superposed sets of rec- 0rd leaves and transfer material, eachpf said 

